Trifid from the 4th

[Dr Nick]

Date: 4/8/07
Time: 8:18pm
Loc: Glen Innes, NSW, Australia
Cam: DSI PRO II
Scope: 8" Skywatcher (newtonian f/5)
Software: Captured in Envisage, Processed in PS CS2
Exposures: L-50x11.3secs
R, G and B all: 20x 11.3secs

Comments and critique welcome as allways

[ballaratdragons]

That's terrific, Nick!!!

Gee, it's certainly 'In ya face' :lol:

I like your colours too :)

[leon]

Good one Nick, maybe a little over cropped but great effort. :thumbsup:

Leon

[Dr Nick]

Thanks Ken and Leon.

Leon - I agree with you there but the horrible truth is that that is the largest possible FOV i can get with my setup, this is one of the few popular, bright objects
that i can get in one field. :( It isn't actually cropped.

[leon]

Ah, sorry Nick, I just jumped in and assumed, :rolleyes: not a good habit of mine.

leon

[ballaratdragons]

Looks like you might need a Focal Reducer, Nick. You'll get a slightly wider FOV and It will also bring the blue out a bit more too. :thumbsup:

As long as you can still reach 'in' focus with your Reflector.

[Ric]

A great looking image Nick, well captured with nice depth and detail.

Cheers

[strongmanmike]

Well you can be pretty happy with that Nick.

When I was your age (in 1985) I would have been over the moon to see an image like that come out of my cold camera wnd Celestron 5 mounted on the Oddie refractor at Mt Stromlo :thumbsup:

Here is my setup I used ahen I was 16/17 years old:

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/73602890

That's the Oddie at Mt Stromlo it is mounted on, unfortnately lost in the fires of 2003 :( The vacume for the cold camera was created using an old fridge compressor from the local tip :D

[Dr Nick]

Thanks to all ;)

Leon - Thats ok, I would expect that it has been cropped too since it is such a small FOV ;)

Ken - I have looked into a focal reducer and i would not be able to reach inward enough with the focus with any focal reducer ;)

Mike - How times have changed since then, as a matter of fact, back then, by the looks of your picture, colour wasn't around in imaging(?) ;)

[Garyh]

Thats a nice M20 Nick! plenty of depth and color.. :thumbsup:
A definite one for your web site!!
cheers Gary

[Tamtarn]

Really good image Nick nicely done :thumbsup:

[Dr Nick]

Thanks again ;)

[richardo]

Yep, top effort there Nick!!
Stars are good and tight and nice colour!

Keep up the good work:thumbsup:

All the best
Rich

[strongmanmike]

I think you meant "Mike"..? :P

There was colour film of course but that was harder to develope and print yourself. I did use it and had it comercially developed (slides mostly - Ektachrome) but I mostly used B&W due to the ease of developing and printing. In 1986 My mate and I who did astrophotography together sold 150 photos of Halley's at $10 a pop to help finance our dream telescope (18" F5 Newt for astrophotography). At one stage we had a production line going in my garage at night making prints - fixer, developer, water etc....the scope was never finished :(

ATB and keep at your modern electronic developer :lol:

Mike

[Dr Nick]

Thanks, Rich

Yes, i did mean Mike, I have changed the post now so it makes more sense. ;) Sounds like a good business, developing photos yourself... But now we have digital CCDs and everything is so much easier... :)